Trevor Burnard, History, University of Melbourne, "Slavery and British Industrialisation: the 'New History of Capitalism Movement' and Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery."

Event Date: 

Friday, January 13, 2017 - 1:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building

Trevor Burnard is the author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (2015) and The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint Domingue and British Jamacia (2016, with John Garrigus) A copy of his paper, "Slavery and British Industrialisation: The 'New History of Capitalism Movement' and Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery" can be found here

A light lunch will be served.

Trevor Burnard